SET"s purchases

I just received the first of many trains and other Plarail items I plan to purchase in the mail today, so I figured I'd start a thread to showcase them!

Looking forward to see your new treasures SETrainl 😃

A few weeks ago, I ordered a Plarail Yamanote Line E235 Series train from eBay. I was told the train would be delivered to my home in the Midwestern US between March 15th and March 28th, but I received a surprising but welcome early delivery notice from eBay a few days ago informing me that it would be delivered today, which it was. I've wanted a Yamanote Line train for a while, so I was pretty excited when opening it!
https://ibb.co/ryff1Lg
https://ibb.co/1rGvNMt
The E235, like all modern Plarail trains in the S series, came packed with a cardboard collector card, which contains some facts about the train in Japanese. I can't read it of course, but it's still a nice touch. Also included was a sticker sheet with stickers representing the electronic destination signs seen on the real trains. 
https://ibb.co/318Nx98
Since the Yamanote Line is circular, trains never need to reverse while in service, leaving the back destination sign on trains unused. Instead of a destination, JR uses the screen to display images of different Japanese plants, a different one for every month. The sticker sheet gives you all twelve, allowing you to customize the train for whatever month you'd like. I chose July since I like the flowers, and it's when my birthday is!
https://ibb.co/6PJcPCC
https://ibb.co/89KVWJp
The opening doors are also cool! I have no idea how they were able to fit the mechanism into such a small space and frankly I'm too scared I'd mess it up if I opened it!
https://ibb.co/s21Wy6j
Overall, a very cool train! Looking forward to running it on my layout, as well as building up a fleet of more trains to run with it!

I agree, it is a neat train and the opening passenger doors are really neat. Very nice SETrain 👍

(03-12-2024, 12:22 AM)SerialExperimentsTrain Wrote: The E235, like all modern Plarail trains in the S series, came packed with a cardboard collector card, which contains some facts about the train in Japanese. I can't read it of course, but it's still a nice touch.

You could paste this into an online translator and see what you can make of the result!

みんなのまちの列車だよ!
E235系はE231系に代わる山手線の車両として登場しました。「お客さま、社会と
コミュニケーションする車両」をキーワードに、前面の大きな窓や表示装置で「人と人、
人と社会をつなぐ情報の窓」を表現し、居住空間を広く感じられるオープンなデザイン
が特徴です。最後尾の行先表示器には、走り出した後に植物の絵柄が表示される
ようになっており、絵柄は毎月季節に合わせて変化します
2019年12月現在

(03-12-2024, 12:22 AM) and SerialExperimentsTrain Wrote: Since the Yamanote Line is circular, trains never need to reverse while in service, leaving the back destination sign on trains unused. Instead of a destination, JR uses the screen to display images of different Japanese plants, a different one for every month. The sticker sheet gives you all twelve, allowing you to customize the train for whatever month you'd like.

This is the sticker sheet supplied...



And this is the JR East press release image...



Each display alternates between two images of the same flowers every five seconds. They are only shown as the train pulls out of the station, the rest of the time the rear board shows Yamanote Line and the destination the same as the front one, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x7Tpcv21F0

The months are represented by:

Jan: Camelia
Feb: Plum blossom
Mar: Dandelion
Apr: Sakura (Cherry blossom)
May: Iris
Jun: Hydrangea
Jul: Morning Glory
Aug: Sunflower
Sep: Chrysanthemum
Oct: Pampas Grass
Nov: Gingko and Maple leaves
Dec: Cyclamen

Here are pictures of them all on real trains.

If you want to search for more pictures and videos, paste this text ('Yamanote E235 flowers') into your favourite search engine: 山手線e235の花

Thanks Dr Chris, great additional information